Pastor Tests Positive For COVID-19 After Praying For Dead Patient’s Recovery In Rivers State

Rivers State senator, Nyesom Wike, on Friday said a minister had tried positive for Coronavirus subsequent to appealing to God for an expired COVID-19 patient in the state. 

Those, who likewise tried positive for the infection incorporate two offspring of the perished. 

Wike expressed this while giving a report on endeavors by the state government to contain the pandemic. 

He accused security agents sent to authorize fringe conclusion of disrupting the endeavors, blaming them for accepting delight to permit individuals into the state. 

He stated, "The obvious end result in this way is the example of transmission of COVID-19 in the state is evidentially predicated on outside importation similarly as the pace of disease and movement is additionally generally low and arithmetical when considered from the date of the list case. 

"By and large, we accept that except if there is an unexpected and vertical slide into network transmission, we expect our COVID-19 disease and predominant rate to proceed with this low direction, which gives us the affirmation that our difficult work is paying off and Rivers State is surely in no perilous position when contrasted with most states, and we will never be by God's uncommon effortlessness. 

"It is not necessarily the case that we are at the pinnacle of this emergency and that everything about the regulation and transmission of COVID-19 was leveled out. 

"For example, the seventh contaminated case was a seaward oil and gas laborer who proceeded to spend a night in a Lagos inn before coming back to Port Harcourt on the ninth of April 2020 with the guide of the security staff keeping an eye on our outskirts. 

"At the point when his indications began, he was admitted to a private medical clinic, (St. Martin's Hospital) on the twentieth and released on the 21st of April 2020. 

"Had the security offices not bargained their duty at the outskirts, this man would have been kept from coming into Port Harcourt with this infection."